I spend too much time checking weather charts - if I know the surf's going to get good, I'm clicking the refresh button on the web a couple of minutes before the next forecast model gets posted onto the Web. If its looking good then I'll check back again just to make sure. I'm going to blog weather on here and try to explain what's going on. These ramblings will focus on an area from Roche westwards although I reserve the right to go off piste occasionally.

Thursday, 23 August 2012

HURRICANE

This is an outlier in the forecast charts and as such is a long way from being a confident forecast

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BUT lo... there on the horizon, a few thousand mile away, lies an extratropical hurricane. It's perched menacingly in the slot...

Cross reference that chart above from the Seppo forecasters, against the might of the ECMWF modellers in Bracknell (who get it right a lot more often) and there are some similarities with the Azores ridge but the detail is very different - especially to the west of the ridge.